How can you talk about Plautus and never mention the Broadway musical (and later film) "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", which is explicitly based on several plays by Plautus?
There's a trend right now on TIkTok revealing that American men think a lot about the roman empire--https://www.today.com/popculture/roman-empire-trend-rcna105222--perhaps they ought to be thinking about the roman empire and latin literature and classical wisdom more generally with the guidance of the Classical Wisdom substack...
That's how Carson Daily explains it, i.e., the recommendation by Joe Rogan and men's self-help influencers of stoicism and so reading Marcus Aurelius, but also the perennial popularity of "Gladiator"... My daughter called me up last night and asked, "Dad, how often do you think about the Roman Empire?" And I said, "Well, conservative estimate would be about every other day... at least." And she started screaming laughing. Check out the TikTok trend, the nonchalant responses of the men who think about it at least once a week and the women's incredulous laughter is worthy of Aristophanes (or Terence).
How can you talk about Plautus and never mention the Broadway musical (and later film) "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", which is explicitly based on several plays by Plautus?
Clearly an oversight as that is a BRILLIANT movie and one of my all time favorites...
To atone, you must run seven times around the seven hills of Rome.
haa haa!!! I wish I was in Rome still!!!
There's a trend right now on TIkTok revealing that American men think a lot about the roman empire--https://www.today.com/popculture/roman-empire-trend-rcna105222--perhaps they ought to be thinking about the roman empire and latin literature and classical wisdom more generally with the guidance of the Classical Wisdom substack...
Wow... I had NO Idea. I wonder if the rise in Stoicism has anything to do with it?
That's how Carson Daily explains it, i.e., the recommendation by Joe Rogan and men's self-help influencers of stoicism and so reading Marcus Aurelius, but also the perennial popularity of "Gladiator"... My daughter called me up last night and asked, "Dad, how often do you think about the Roman Empire?" And I said, "Well, conservative estimate would be about every other day... at least." And she started screaming laughing. Check out the TikTok trend, the nonchalant responses of the men who think about it at least once a week and the women's incredulous laughter is worthy of Aristophanes (or Terence).